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While the fans crawling through a hole along the third-base line fence to gain access to the bleachers to the basketball/tennis courts doubling as the batter's eye to a railroad blowing its whistle only feet behind the home team's dugout may be charming, but it is also distracting to opponents

That's something South Park coach Steve Bucci was aware of when his team traveled to Wylie Field to put its 9-0 record on the line against Elizabeth Forward in a Section 4-AAA game.

“I did some research beforehand,” Bucci said, “and they are a tough team to play here.”

Well, you sure couldn't tell that Elizabeth Forward was 28-2 over its past 30 games at Wylie Field by what transpired against the Eagles.

South Park (10-0, 3-0) banged out 13 hits and hit double-figure runs for the 10th time this year with a convincing 13-0 win over Elizabeth Forward (7-2, 1-2).

“Them being 28-2 was a stat that we knew coming in here,” Bucci said. “This is a tough place to play with a lot of open space and the background for hitters.”

It didn't seem to bother Nick Yobbi, and it sure didn't hurt South Park's bats.

Yobbi improved to 3-0 as he tossed six innings of scoreless ball while scattering six singles and striking out six to raise his season total to 26.

For the second consecutive game, Elizabeth Forward struggled with what Champ referred to as routine plays.

Add that to eight walks and two hit batters by three pitchers against one of the best teams in Class AAA, and you get a second consecutive section blowout loss.

“I said it on Monday after West Mifflin's loss, and I'll say it again, we need to make the routine plays,” Champ said. “Yobbi is very good — very good. You can't give him anything let alone do what we did.”

EF made three errors but wasn't able to make a handful of other plays that allowed innings to continue.

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